The BBC, ITV, Sky and Channel 4 are jointly announcing a set of leaders' election programmes, including one live election debate featuring all seven party leaders on 2nd April. The announcement follows conversations with all the parties.

The following letter was sent by the BBC Director of Television, Danny Cohen, to Sh. Rakesh Singh, Joint Secretary of the Government of India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, in response to a letter raising concerns about the BBC’s broadcast of the Storyville documentary India’s Daughter. Mr Cohen’s response was sent on Wednesday, 4 March, before the broadcast of the documentary on BBC Four in the UK.

The DUP requested a meeting with the Director-General of the BBC to raise its concerns about not being included in the leaders’ TV debates to be broadcast across the UK and about wider coverage ahead of the General Election.

Today the Sun attacked the 'scandal' of the BBC paying 'greedy' MPs to appear on some of our shows (when they’re not appearing just in their party political capacity). It described these payments as a splurge of public money and 'Beeb’s bungs'.